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Speeches Given by Women - A-Z
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Abzug, Bella |
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Women Will Not Stop
September 12, 1995, delivered at Beijing,
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Addams, Jane |
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The Subjective
Necessity for Social Settlements
1892, delivered at Plymouth, Massachusetts |
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Anthony, Susan B. |
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On Women's Right to
Vote
1873, delivered in the state of New York |
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Bhutto,
Benazir |
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Equality and
Partnership
September 4, 1995, delivered at Beijing,
China |
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Bush, Barbara |
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Wellesley Commencement
Address
June 1, 1990, delivered at Wellesley, MA |
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Catt, Carrie Chapman |
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The Crisis
September 7, 1916, delivered at Atlantic
City, New Jersey
Onward and Upward
(Open Address to Congress)
December 12-15, 1917, delivered at
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Chisholm,
Shirley |
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Equal Rights for Women
May 21, 1969, delivered at Washington D.C. |
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Clinton,
Hillary Rodham |
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Wellesley Student
Commencement Speech
May 31, 1969, delivered at Wellesley, MA
Women's Rights Are
Human Rights
September 5, 1995, delivered at Beijing,
China |
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Elizabeth I |
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Spanish Armada Speech
1588, delivered at Tilbury, Essex, England
Golden Speech
1601, delivered at London, England |
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Elizabeth II |
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Coronation Speech
June 2, 1953, delivered at London, England
Address to the U.N.
General Assembly
October 21, 1957, delivered at New York,
N.Y.
Address to the U.N.
General Assembly
July 6, 2010, delivered at New York,
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Fisher, Mary |
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A Whisper of AIDS
August 19, 1992, delivered at Houston, Texas |
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Friedan, Betty |
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Carswell Testimony
January 27,
1970, given at Washington D.C. |
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Gage, Frances D. |
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Address to the
American Equal Rights Association
May 9-10,
1867, delivered at New York, N.Y. |
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Gage, Matilda Joslyn |
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On the Progress of
Education and Industrial Avocations for
Women
Delivered in
1871
Dangers of the Hour
Delivered on
February 24, 1890 |
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Hill, Anita
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I Could Not Keep
Silent
October 11, 1991, delivered at Washington
D.C. |
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Jordan,
Barbara C. |
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The Constitutional
Basis for Impeachment
July 25, 1974, delivered at Washington D.C.
Who Then Will Speak
for the Common Good?
July 12, 1976, delivered at New York, N.Y. |
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Nichols,
Clarina Howard |
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The Responsibilities
of Woman
1851, delivered at Worcester,
Massachusetts |
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Pankhurst, Emmeline |
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Freedom or Death
November 13, 1913, delivered at
Hartford, Connecticut |
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Richards, Ann |
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Keynote Address to the
Democratic National Convention
July 18, 1988, delivered at Atlanta, Georgia |
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Roosevelt,
Eleanor |
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The Struggle for Human
Rights
September 28, 1948, delivered at Paris,
France |
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Rose, Ernestine |
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The Tender Ivy Plant
October 15, 1851, delivered at
Worcester, Massachusetts |
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Sanger, Margaret |
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The Morality of Birth
Control
November 18, 1921, delivered at New York,
N.Y.
The Children's Era
March 30, 1925, delivered at New York,
N.Y. |
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Shaw, Anna Howard |
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Eulogy to Susan B.
Anthony
March 15, 1906, delivered at Rochester, New York
The Fundamental
Principle of a Republic
June 21, 1915, delivered at Ogdensburg,
New York |
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Smith, Margaret Chase |
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Declaration of
Conscience
June 1, 1950, delivered at Washington
D.C. |
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Stanton,
Elizabeth Cady |
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Declaration of
Sentiments
July 19-20, 1848, delivered at Seneca Falls,
New York
Temperance and Women's
Rights
June 1, 1853, delivered at Rochester, New York
The Rights of Married
Women
February 20, 1854, submitted at New York,
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The Destructive Male
1868, delivered at Washington D.C.
Solitude of Self
January 18, 1892, delivered at Washington D.C. |
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Suu Kyi, Aung
San |
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Keynote Address at the
NGO Forum on Women
August 31, 1995, delivered at Huairou, China |
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Teresa, Mother |
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Love Begins at Home
December 11, 1979, delivered at Oslo, Norway |
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Terrell, Mary
E. Church
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What It Means to be
Colored in the Capital of the United States
October 10, 1906, delivered at Washington,
D.C. |
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Thatcher,
Margaret |
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Britain Awake
January 19, 1976, delivered at London, UK
The West in the World
Today
December 18, 1979, delivered at New York, N.Y.
The Lady's Not for
Turning
October 10, 1980, delivered at Brighton, UK
Sermon on the Mound
May 21, 1988, delivered at Edinburgh, United
Kingdom
Eulogy for Ronald
Reagan
June 11, 2004, delivered at Washington D.C. |
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Truth,
Sojourner |
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Ain't I a Woman?
May 28,
1851, delivered in Akron, Ohio |
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